Posted on 07/08/2004 3:53:41 PM PDT by Southack
...."Currently, 9.5% of our annual GDP is from imports,"......
Yes, but unfortunately, that includes alot of oil, and increasingly, steel. These are two critical resources that in the very short run are hard to develop the alternative domestic infrastructure.
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You see, many of us have come through a battle with the left and are hopelessly careful before we pass things on; because, you see, we have been played the fools by those on the left.
Now if the author is a Muslim and he said these things, and it can be verified, then you have indeed done the right a great favor, because these things can be passed on with credible expressive credentials. However, if this is just a good read and it cannot be verified then you have done the right a huge dis-service because the left can say we (the right) make things up. The dis-service gets bigger because our credibility is gone.
Please provide the necessary information. There are people on this forum that have taken what you have posted and are passing it on as gospel.
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If he is Jewish, you ought to have the Mods delete what's in the parentheses next to the headline.
Thanks.
I have done some checking and I found this on your author: (http://www.arationaladvocate.com/haimharari.htm)
Prof. Haim Harari, President of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel has been awarded the Harnack Medal. Following a proposal by President Hubert Markl, the Senate of the Max Planck Society reached this decision unanimously at its meeting in Munich on 23 March. In doing so, the Max Planck Society recognises Hararis successful work over 13 years as the senior representative of Israels leading research institution. The award was presented at the Max Planck Societys General Meeting in Berlin in June.
President Markl explained that Harari had contributed to the successful continuation of the tradition of co-operation which had existed for 30 years between the Max Planck Society and the Weizmann Institute and to adapting this collaborative work to the needs of science, which was becoming increasingly international and competitive. We also have Harari to thank for a certain normalising effect which has entered relations, as far as this is possible in view of the historical situation, said President Markl. He had also extended and strengthened co-operation between the two organisations through his commitment to setting up joint junior research groups at the Weizmann Institute and at Max Planck Institutes.
Professor Haim Harari was born in Jerusalem in 1940. He studied physics at his home towns Hebrew University, ultimately obtaining a doctorate. His interest in German culture and in working with the German scientific community stems from a period spent as a guest scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute) in Munich in the 70s. At this time he already held a chair in High Energy Physics at the Weizmann Institute. He became its president in 1988 and, over the years, has built it up into an institution at the forefront of research, highly regarded throughout the world. Harari always combined his professional ambitions with commitment to educational and social policy, especially in the field of teaching and introducing young people to the natural sciences. As chairman of a committee, which distributes university funding approved globally by the Israeli parliament, he long exerted an influence on developments in the Israeli scientific scene.
Following Germanys reunification, Harari also showed considerable interest in the development of the sciences in the former GDR, which became Germany´s new states. He visited newly established Max Planck Institutes and universities there. His analyses made an important contribution to shaping opinion within the Max Planck Society. The Harnack Medal, endowed in 1924, is the highest award bestowed by the Max Planck Society. It is only rarely conferred and only for exceptional contributions (continuing the tradition of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, of which the theologian, politician and friend to the sciences Adolf von Harnack was a founding father and first president for 19 years)
The article itself can be found at: http://www.freeman.org/m_online/jul04/harari.htm
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Thanks for the aricle and the ping. It's indeed a really good one.
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Just in case you were sleeping and did not read my post well, I will go over it for you: I asked you to provide a source (others had REPEATEDLY asked you for your source): YOU did not do so. I also questioned whether or not the author was Muslim (again, I was not the only one to do that). YOUR only reply was that someone in a reply to you stated something to the effect that the author "might" be a Jew. If our goal here is to pass on up-to-date material and use it speedily in an effective way to combat the leftist agenda in this country, then I for one would say that your sloppiness is close to unacceptable.
Since you had not replied to any of the above stated inquiries, I should have known that you were not really interested in the fight against leftist elitism in this country; but, rather, you are one who just likes to talk the talk and not walk the walk.
BTW, the term "newbie" is condescending and unacceptable. If we (the right) treat each other as if some are elite and some are lower, then we are no better than the left.
And further: I went to great length to explain myself and my reasons for asking for the information in my post to you. And, your response is to insult me. So, I guess, I must stoop to your level: Now, if you get my point, I will forget that you are lazy and insulting.
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